Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)

A free, self-paced 16 module training curriculum for Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104), built for cloud administrators running day-to-day Azure operations. Completing every module issues a printable 16.0 contact hour certificate from TECHLEAD 187 LLC.

Domains covered

Module syllabus

  1. 1.1 Entra Users & Groups
    Creating and managing Microsoft Entra users and groups, user and group properties, licenses, external users, and self-service password reset.
  2. 1.2 Azure RBAC
    Managing built-in Azure roles, assigning roles at different scopes, and interpreting access assignments.
  3. 1.3 Policy, Locks & Tags
    Implementing and managing Azure Policy, configuring resource locks, applying and managing tags, and managing resource groups.
  4. 1.4 Subscriptions, Management Groups & Cost
    Managing subscriptions and management groups, and controlling costs with alerts, budgets, and Azure Advisor recommendations.
  5. 2.1 Storage Access Control
    Configuring storage firewalls and virtual networks, SAS tokens, stored access policies, access keys, and identity-based access for Azure Files.
  6. 2.2 Storage Accounts & Redundancy
    Creating and configuring storage accounts, redundancy options, object replication, encryption, and managing data with Storage Explorer and AzCopy.
  7. 2.3 Files & Blob Configuration
    Configuring Azure Files shares and Blob containers, storage tiers, soft delete, snapshots, blob lifecycle management, and versioning.
  8. 3.1 ARM Templates & Bicep
    Interpreting, modifying, and deploying Azure Resource Manager templates and Bicep files, exporting deployments, and converting ARM templates to Bicep.
  9. 3.2 Virtual Machines
    Creating VMs, encryption at host, moving VMs across resource groups, subscriptions, and regions, managing sizes and disks, availability zones and sets, and VM Scale Sets.
  10. 3.3 Containers: ACR, ACI & Container Apps
    Creating and managing Azure Container Registry, provisioning Azure Container Instances and Azure Container Apps, and managing container sizing and scaling.
  11. 3.4 App Service
    Provisioning App Service plans, configuring scaling, certificates and TLS, custom DNS mapping, backup, networking settings, and deployment slots.
  12. 4.1 Virtual Networks & Routing
    Creating and configuring virtual networks and subnets, VNet peering, public IP addresses, user-defined routes, and troubleshooting connectivity.
  13. 4.2 Secure VNet Access
    Configuring NSGs and application security groups, evaluating effective security rules, implementing Azure Bastion, and service and private endpoints for PaaS.
  14. 4.3 DNS & Load Balancing
    Configuring Azure DNS, internal and public load balancers, and troubleshooting load balancing.
  15. 5.1 Azure Monitor & Insights
    Interpreting metrics, configuring log settings, querying logs, alert rules, action groups and processing rules, Monitor Insights, and Network Watcher.
  16. 5.2 Backup & Site Recovery
    Creating Recovery Services and Backup vaults, configuring backup policies, performing backup and restore, configuring Site Recovery, and regional failover.

What each module includes

An executive lesson briefing with five key concepts and official vendor documentation references, a scenario based knowledge check scored for mastery, an applied scenario evaluation, and supplemental verified videos plus official free hands on labs where available.

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